* Curtis Olson -- Tuesday 03 June 2008:
> Well assuming that we have agreed to switch over to a case insensitive
> search,
I think we have. Takes another hour until I have compiled OSG 2.5.1
and the newest sg/fg changes, but then I'll commit Stuart's patch
(after having fixed indendation and random spaces, of course :-).
For those not fully understanding the issue yet, here's a little
illustration: If I use the following quite useful shell function ...
apt() { LANG=en_US zgrep "^1 " $FG_ROOT/Airports/apt.dat.gz|sed -r
's,^..{13},,'|egrep -i "$*" ; }
like so:
$ apt "" # normally I'd write e.g. apt ^LO or apt Dallas
then I get a list of all airports, and a part of it looks like this:
YWTL Waterloo
CYKF WATERLOO
KALO WATERLOO RGNL
37NE Watermeier
MA97 Waters
KART WATERTOWN INTL
KRYV Watertown Muni
KATY WATERTOWN RGNL
2S5 Waterville
CCW3 Waterville Kings Co Muni
KWVL WATERVILLE ROBERT LAFLEUR
40C Watervliet Municipal
S25 WATFORD CITY MUNI
So a case-sensitive search for "Wat" would give me an unpredictable
"random" result. There's no rule for when names are capitalized or
versal. This is not suited to find a particular airport. Of course,
we could modify the names when reading in apt.dat.gz, but that's a
bit tricky, too. Some things don't make sense when auto-capitalized:
AB (Airbase) shouldn't become Ab, for example.
m.
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